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Historical Highway MarkersChristian Home SchoolK-177
African Americans prioritized education after Emancipation, and many attended one- or two-room schools built alongside churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Christian Home School was built eight miles south of here, near Christian Home Baptist Church, in 1926-27. Funding for the one-room building came from the Black community, Isle of Wight County, and Julius Rosenwald, whose partnership with Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute led to the construction of more than 5,000 schools for African Americans across the South. An addition to Christian Home School was built ca. 1932. This addition was moved to Smithfield in 2005 and opened as the Schoolhouse Museum in 2007.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Lucien T. Hall, “The Evolution of Education in Isle of Wight County,” M.A. Thesis, College of William and Mary, 1940. Christian Home School Architectural Survey Form, DHR ID 046-5053 Christian Home Baptist Church Architectural Survey Form, DHR ID 046-5257 “The Schoolhouse Museum”: http://theschoolhousemuseum.org/AboutUs/History/tabid/184/Default.aspx Isle of Wight County School Board Minutes Deed of transfer from B.P. and Florence Chapman to the Newport District school board, 1 Jan. 1921. Teacher History Database, Isle of Wight County Schoolhouse Museum Board Meeting Minutes, 2007. Smithfield Times, 28 Feb. 2007. |